Henry Matthews Decorative Boxes

Beautifully styled is this 1930s Art Deco French Bonbonniere. Part of the half doll, powder box, jar family. Typical Art Deco coloring which is as b...

Art Deco, sterling silver-mounted shagreen table box, London, 1923, Charles Boynton & Sons, Ltd, makers. Measures: 6 1/4" wide x 3 1/2" deep x 2 1/4" high. Wood lined. Shagreen is be...

Art Deco-Style, sterling silver, wood-lined table box, having a hinged lid and a leather underside, Birmingham, England, year-hallmarked for 1953, Joseph Gloster, Ltd. maker. Measure...

Powder case for handbag in 925/1000 sterling silver with black and red fired enamel. Opening with spring button. Ground mirror and retina inside. Measure cm. 7.3 x 7.3 x 1.5. Weight gr.250. Created in the Art Deco style for Cartier USA in the 1980s, inspired by designs by Louis Cartier from the early 1900s. Manufactured in Florence in the Salimbeni company headquarters with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enamelled firings at about 750°<800° C. About cooperation Salimbeni and Cartier. Our first meetings with the Cartier USA Company took place through the Giorgini Company, the first "Buying Office" set up in Florence immediately after the Second World War, which had the purpose of bringing together Florentine, and also Italian, producers with American buyers, who especially appreciated the artistic objects still manufactured by artisans who still took inspiration from the Italian Renaissance, using techniques handed down from generation to generation. Mrs. Gina Pestelli, wife of a Florentine retail jeweller, was in charge of contacts with Cartier USA, above all an employee, while her daughter, also for Giorgini, took care of the fashion that in those years was affirmed in Florence with the events of "Pitti ". With their help, we began to supply frames and boxes in sterling silver gold plated with malachite and other semi-precious stones. At the same time, the official buyer of Cartier, Mr. William Smith, began to appreciate and commission the first objects with fired enamels, a process of which we have always been specialists. In 1975 we began exhibiting at the prestigious New York Jewellery Association Show, which we participated in both the February and July editions, for a good 26 years until 2001. In New York in those years the "Art deco style" was still very much appreciated, still mindful of the beautiful early 20th century architecture of the great buildings such as the "Crysler" or the "Empire State". We then began to produce frames, boxes, evening bags, "objets de vertu" and other objects in "art deco style" which were very popular with Mr. Smith who gave us some photocopies of Louis Francois Cartier drawings to reproduce them. Thus, numerous cigarette cases, powder compacts, evening bags, frames and table boxes were created exclusively for Cartier USA which, at the time, had the prestigious "Silver Department" on the first floor of the Cartier store on Fifth Avenue. An evening bag, with matching cigarette case and powder compact, were redone on the design created for a gift given to Mary Pickford at the time. In a 1986 Cartier...

Antique valuable handmade sterling silver box or Decorative jewllery box with Illustration pressed, cast and chased. Rectangular body on short, curved feet with hinged, vaulted lid. ...

Art Deco 1930s ceramic powder bowl signed by Artist LLANE with manufacturers mark underneath. Beautiful vibrant coloring with fine and delicate detailing to the face, beautifully and...

For your consideration is this very attractive and totally original 1930s Art Deco ladies powder/ trinket box. The top half of the container is in the form of a 1930s flapper girl wi...

This is a really cute and rare find, a 1930's Art Deco compact with the most delightful green and black enamel decoration on a chrome casing . The interior is an engineers delight with a sliding latch on the side of the compact to secure the power in place. Upon opening the lid reveals the mechanics that operates and reveals a powder dispenser...

Striking and quite rare is this 1930s Art Deco ceramic powder box which depicts a stylized female dancer sat on the lid of a porcelain box. Beautiful colouring and detailing. A rare ...

First time we've had one of these so quite a rare find and in superb condition is this wonderful 1930's Art Deco German porcelain pin cushion half doll related head powder puff set, ...

For your consideration is this very attractive and totally original 1930's Art Deco ladies powder/ trinket box. Made from ceramic with a vibrantly colored painted finish. Highly func...

A magnificent and highly collectable box by the famous house of Cartier, this piece made in England, fully hallmarked for London 1944 together with the initials for Jacques Cartier. ...